News| A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia

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Posing as a scholar, a Chinese woman spent years writing alternative accounts of medieval Russian history on Chinese Wikipedia, conjuring imaginary states, battles, and aristocrats in one of the largest hoaxes on the open-source platform.

The scam was exposed last month by Chinese novelist Yifan, who was researching for a book when he came upon an article on the Kashin silver mine.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbwm/chinese-woman-fake-russian-history-wikipedia

 

[Joseph12]

Posing as a scholar, a Chinese woman spent years writing alternative accounts of medieval Russian history on Chinese Wikipedia, conjuring imaginary states, battles, and aristocrats in one of the largest hoaxes on the open-source platform.

The scam was exposed last month by Chinese novelist Yifan, who was researching for a book when he came upon an article on the Kashin silver mine.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbwm/chinese-woman-fake-russian-history-wikipedia

Quite impressive actually

 

[andyhtc]

That's probably how Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Journey to the West came about too...

 

[popsune1]

 

[mooseolly]

That’s why one should not just quote wiki as fact.

 

[Kiwi8]

WTF... She sibeh lame sia.

 

[invigo79]

She should write a novel instead of wasting time with Wikipedia.


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[Zinna]

Like that can wrtie game of thrones liao la

 

[buttbERry]

this one really jin eng sia

 

[lowsesbbfa]

Posing as a scholar, a Chinese woman spent years writing alternative accounts of medieval Russian history on Chinese Wikipedia, conjuring imaginary states, battles, and aristocrats in one of the largest hoaxes on the open-source platform.

The scam was exposed last month by Chinese novelist Yifan, who was researching for a book when he came upon an article on the Kashin silver mine.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbwm/chinese-woman-fake-russian-history-wikipedia

Really ish queen of CSB.

 

[lax]

Beyond seeing her act for vandalising Wikipedia or mischief. She is indeed talented. To write something and invent facts and details take certain sort of talent, lots of high school students struggle to write composition. She should be trained to write novels and scripts for drama and movies.

 

[linbeier]

wiki realli cannotch trust huan

 

[nashvision]

can become jk Rowling instead



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[Barelang]

Other bored housewife fornicate. She chose to fabricate history. What an interesting person.

 

[ponpokku]

That’s why one should not just quote wiki as fact.

nah, only tiong version of wiki cannot trust...
if in engrish she wouldve kena sexposed in 2 weeks.

 

[qcy888]

Inspired by Romance Of The 3 Kingdoms

 

[Kiwi8]

Beyond seeing her act for vandalising Wikipedia or mischief. She is indeed talented. To write something and invent facts and details take certain sort of talent, lots of high school students struggle to write composition. She should be trained to write novels and scripts for drama and movies.

Her talent of making her CSB seem like the truth, then of course she is very suitable to be a scammer.

 

[The_Davis]

Beyond seeing her act for vandalising Wikipedia or mischief. She is indeed talented. To write something and invent facts and details take certain sort of talent, lots of high school students struggle to write composition. She should be trained to write novels and scripts for drama and movies.

Article says her longest piece is close to the great Gatsby…. 208 pages leh….

 

[The_Davis]

can become jk Rowling instead



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Jk Rowling should hire her lol

 

[tomsss]

CSB ppl here should learn from her

can help improve the quality of the stories here